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about Low wages at Princeton Having just finished reading Peter Singer’s Rethinking Life and Death, I feel the need to defend Singer’s name and badly maligned views. If my fellow alumni could take the time to read some of his work, they would find that the “controversial bioethics professor” is extremely intelligent and caring and puts forth thoughtful arguments for reviewing our traditional ethics. As our medical technology has changed, the reality of life and death has also drastically changed, demanding a careful re-examination of ethical precepts created in a time before life support. “I am glad to see he [Singer] didn’t suggest simply putting the underpaid workers out of their misery” writes O’Callaghan (Letters, April 4) in response to Singer’s essay on improving the pay and benefits of the university’s lowest paid workers (Notebook, February 21). Such attempts at humor only perpetuate the misconceptions of Singer’s work as set forth by his opponents and demonstrate a terrible lack of respect for this rigorous thinker. Mr. Hutcheson, in his letter of the same issue, tries to use Singer’s name to discredit the movement to give the lowest paid workers a living wage. Everyone seems to agree that attending Princeton is an incredible privilege — I’m not sure that receiving a living wage for full-time work can be seen in the same light. Abby Austin Weeman ‘89 Respond
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